Artists rehabilitate dilapidated stretch of Denver viaduct

Published 9:34 am, Friday, September 30, 2016

DENVER (AP) — Take the gut-shaking Interstate 70 traffic overhead, add the procession of oil trains, and you have one very high-decibel emerging art scene in north Denver.

A group of artists are painting colorful murals beneath the Interstate 70 viaduct that, when built in 1964, sectioned off the immigrant and minority communities of Globeville and Elyria Swansea from downtown Denver.

Their goal: Make a dark, deteriorating and don't-go-there stretch of viaduct a place to attract residents from both sides of the highway.

They also hope to ameliorate the cultural and economic disparities triggered by the interstate's construction 52 years ago.